Participate in Alabama Gives Day

WALA FOX10 and WFNA are proud to partner with the Alabama Broadcasters Association and the Alabama Association of Nonprofits for Alabama Gives Day.  On February 2, 2012 Alabama Gives Day hopes to make history by pairing donors with hundreds of Alabama nonprofit organizations in just 24 hours.

How does it work?

1. Visit the Alabama Gives Day donation website on Thursday, February 2, 2012.
2. Search the hundreds of nonprofits registered by name, category or zip code. Nonprofits are organized into 12 categories, including animals, arts & culture, children & youth, environmental, health, and more.
3. Choose the nonprofit(s) you'd like to support.
4. Enter the amount you'd like to give and click to donate!

Which non-profits from our area are participating?
Over 160 nonprofits are registered from the Mobile and Baldwin Counties alone! Just to name a few:

• Mobile SPCA
• Girl Scouts of Southern Alabama
• Adoption Rocks
• HandsOn South Alabama
• Mobile Baykeeper
• Boy Scouts of America, Mobile Area Council
• Mobile Symphony
• Junior League of Mobile
• Mobile Area Education Foundation
• Museum of Mobile
• Friends of the Mobile Animal Shelter
• Mobile Opera
• Family Counseling Center of Mobile
• Angels Arms Animal Rescue
• Volunteers of America Southeast
• Community Foundation of South Alabama
• YMCA of South Alabama
• Boys and Girls Clubs of South Alabama
• Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF)
• Bay Area Food Bank
• Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• United Way of Southwest Alabama
• McKemie Place
• Alabama Coastal Foundation
• Ransom Café
• Penelope House

…and many more!

How did Alabama Gives Day get started?

On February 2, 2012 the Alabama Broadcasters Association, in partnership with the Alabama Association of Nonprofits, is taking one day to harness the power of individual contributions statewide. Alabama Gives Day aims to make history by connecting new and existing donors with hundreds of Alabama nonprofits in just 24 hours.

What could be an historic event in Alabama will be backed by the marketing power of Alabama radio and television stations and nonprofits with one primary goal in mind: to help charitable organizations continue to provide a broad spectrum of aid across the state. “The Alabama Broadcasters Association is excited to participate in what will be a historic event for philanthropy in our state and possibly across the nation. Alabama radio and TV stations will join together in an effort to raise record amounts in gifts for charities across the state in a 24-hour period,” said Sharon Tinsley, President of the Alabama Broadcasters Association.

The Gives Day movement began three years ago in Minnesota as a means to increase philanthropy and help grow the individual donor base of nonprofits. This year Minnesota’s Give to the Max day raised over $14 million dollars in December.  Colorado Gives Day recently had 52,000 donations totaling $12 million. When presented with a new way to give online, community members have overwhelmingly shown their support through donations, and while the immediate benefit is huge, the ripple effects of giving have helped spur other philanthropic endeavors according to organizers in Minnesota and Colorado. Alabama Gives Days hopes to follow suit breaking philanthropic records statewide.

“Connecting individual donors to nonprofits, while also promoting the safety and ease of online giving, is critical to helping our nonprofits be sustainable,” said John Stone, President and CEO for the Alabama Association of Nonprofits. “Never before has an event of this magnitude taken place in our state. This will be a defining moment for Alabama nonprofits participating in the event and the impact will be felt far and wide. We’ve seen what Minnesota, Colorado and other Gives Days have done, and with Alabama’s strong tradition of giving we believe that history can be made on February 2 ^nd.”

Visit the Alabama Gives Day donation website on Thursday, February 2, 2012 and help FOX10 and WFNA make Alabama Gives Day a success!